The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-14
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Ground oats make excellent food
for all kinds of young stock. If
scalded, such food is also excellent for
sows with filters of pigs.
According to Peter Henderson,
the hybrid tea roses are hardy in
most of the Northern States, if pro-
tected around the roots with leaves
during the winter.
Some farmers have a thirst for
trading horses. The time consumed
results in limited area of crops and
vastly poorer ones. -RuraE NeO Yorker.
Those great western drougths re-
mind us that irrigation viii play a
more and more important part in the
agriculture of the country, as the years
roll on.-F'arm Journal.
Cream Waffles. one pint OF
thick sweet cream, stir in half tea
spoon of soda, beat two eggs and stir
in, add flour to make little batter.
Bake and butter Good Cheer.
Delicate pie. Whites of two eggs,
four tablespoons cream, one large
spoonful flour, one cup white sugar,
one cup cold water; flavor with lemon.
Line pie plate with pastry, pour in
the pastry, and bake atonce. -Farnaer
and Manufacturer.
There is nothing that will fatten a
pig as quickly as sweet potatoes.
They are superior to corn for that pur-
pose. Pick out those that are market
able and boil the culls for the pigs.
They may be given to steers also, and
can be fed raw or cooked. Troy Times.
AS well-water in villages can be
poisoned with typhoid-fever germs,
due to infiltration of water-closet mat
ter, there is nothing extraordinary in
finding the oozings of manure heaps
into water for cattle producing an
equally detrimental effect on stock
Boston Globe.
In France, care is taken never to
alter the quality of the soil which pro-
duces good apples. All animal ma
nures are studiously avoided; only a
compost Of the residue of the cider
press and little lime strewn at the
foot of the trees. is all the manuring
required. Indianapolis Journal.
-Crumb Pie.-This makes five pies.
Bake without a top crust. One cup
molasses and one cup warm water,
one teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful
cinnamon, mix and put in pie plates.
Then take four cups flour, one and
one-half cups sugar and one cup lard.
Crumb it together, and put on top and
bake, Boston Budget.
Lady Cake. One pint of the
whites of eggs, one pound and quar-
ter of flour, the same of sugar, three
quarters of pound of butter, and a
half teaspoon of soda. Cream the
butter and sugar together, and add
half the eggs, after whipping them
stiff Stir in the flour, then add the
remainder of the eggs. -EGchamqe.
Peter Henderson says, in the Prai-
RTE Farmer: eff garden seeds, when
planted in the spring, are firmly
pressed when under the earth, by the
ball of the foot, at the time the gar
deners are putting them into the
ground, they will invariably grow,
drought OF no drought; and, what is still
more important, they will spring up
earlier and grow faster, and mature
better than any of their kind which
have not been subjected to this dis
cipline. This same rule of pressure
holds good in transplanting trees,
shrubs and plants"
1.-THE good Lord sends vittles.''
says the benevolent Mrs. Darlington,
"and His intention should be carried
out in the cooking of 'em, which
doesn't always follow, sometimes,
where good things are thrown to-
gether anyhow, and left to come out
the best they can. All! many a fair
home has been dessicated by poor
cooking, and mans table is often
the rock on which his happiness has
split, with bread so harl you could
throw it at a stone wall. If mans
as pious as Beelzebub his stomach
- Al,